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I planning to use above machine for:
* For GPGPU computation, OpenCL
* Primarily not for games -- though my nephews/nieces play ocassionally
* Heavy numeric processing & related scientific calculations -- either with OpenCL (or with CUDA if I buy nVidia GPGPU card)

I want your valuable help in selecting a suitable motherboard(s)/GPGPU-card which has support for full resolution(as supported by card in windows), network card and sound support for a reasonable price.

At present, I am planning to use ATI based GPGPU cards -- so OpenCL. I do not have any objection for using nVidia cards -- if they offer similar TeraFlops for the same price as ' AMD's Phenom II X4 955 BE'. If I get nVidia card, I could put my hands on CUDA, OpenCL. Also let me know, how the nVidia/AMD-Radeon Drivers/Libraries fare for GPGPU computations.

hello you are asking which mother board is good for AMD's Phenom II X4 955 BE and 1 GB ATI Radeon 4850X2 PCIE i think asrock mother board is better option any series of asrock that match with this configration. i am also using asrock motherboard with amd sempron 3000+ processor.

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How about bringing the supported distro's up to their current version instead of supporting a distro that is near the end of it's support period. *cough* openSUSE 11.0 *cough*

openSUSE™ 11.0 (32-bit/64-bit)Ubuntu® 9.04 (32-bit/64-bit)

deanjo,

Thanks for the advice. It is in my plan to try above Linux versions. I tried to install 32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 (CD got from Cannonical) and the boot process is failing in between. So I need to try 64-bit Ubuntu -- which takes time.

I will report about it once I am done with that process.

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Thanks for the advice. It is in my plan to try above Linux versions. I tried to install 32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 (CD got from Cannonical) and the boot process is failing in between. So I need to try 64-bit Ubuntu -- which takes time.

I will report about it once I am done with that process.

Not surprising that it fails on the boot. That's one of the "gotchas" that can hit a guy on AMD chipset boards. It takes a while it seems to get proper support with newer revisions of their chipsets which has been a sore point with me on them. Chipset support in newer kernels and distro's but AMD drops the ball with "officially" supporting newer distro's with their other solutions. A person shouldn't have to worry about multiple levels of readiness especially when it's from one company.